estebanana -> RE: Noise Pollution from Car Audio Systems (Aug. 9 2012 5:44:47)
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Yikes. I actually like the mechanized up a down movement of the cars and all the other trick stuff, I grew up on lowrider land, but the gangs no thanks. Not all lowriders are jerks, in fact most are not. I also grew up in areas where there were gang wars. I went to Colton High School near Riverside, East of LA, Colton, Fontana and San Bernardino were about as rough as it can get. The gang in San Bernardino was called Los Counts, they were pretty nasty. Now it is much much worse. The song about cruising E St. by Van Halen was about E st. in San Bernardino, it was quite a spectacle. There was violence then, but it was really more about the cars and the passeo back then. Since I was a whitey boy surfer my Friday nights were spent driving to San Clemente to spend the night in my VW and get up at dawn to surf Trestles. I did see the E St. Cruise few times, wow what a crazy bumper to bumper car show. The thing about a lowrider, is it can be really beautiful. A Chevy Impala is about the most beautiful car to lower, and is it is down with restraint and good color, nice line work of man it can really be gorgeous. Of course if you're from New England you may not get it, it might just look like another beaner car to you. Sometimes the cheapskate lowrider would lower a Chevy Monte Carlo, lame. The Monte Carlo is a trash car, ugly sides and profile. The front is hideous. Better to grab a Pontiac Bonneville or even a funky old Toyota sedan than the cliche' Monte. uugh. Those days were also a time when lowrider music had more appeal to non lowriders. Bands like War, P-Funk, Los Lobos later on, even Zep. Popular music was still well crafted at that time and stereo systems were loud, but the aesthetic was not to rattle the chassis a panels, but to get clear honest sound. There's nothing wrong with a deep blue Impala with white walls and gorgeous paint playing some band like Tito Puente kinda loud through a good system. But too many guys use the car like an aggressive piece of armor today, they have lost the arte and the finesse of customizing. The other sadness is the penchant for dorks to drive high riders with tall gaudy wheels and thin, thin tires. They think putting ugly wheels on a car makes it badass, not. When I was in high school those guys would have been considered simpleton posers. You either had surf racks on your vehicle and you surfed, or you were a real cholo with Pendelton and bandana. Hilarious that in my senior year in high school I set a gang fashion trend. Since I was a skinny little skater kid I had work Vans tennis shoes. The classic ones that they made had colored canvas panels and you could buy several pair a mis match the colors. I transferred into Colton High and wore my long sleeve surfer tee shirts and cordouroy shorts with my mis matched Vans. At some point during my junior year one of the school cholos started wearing the same shoes I was wearing. It seemed to have caught on and when I came back in fall of senior year many cholos had mis macthed vans. Crossing the quad one day I passed by a guy who had on the mismatched shoes, he gave me a dirty look because I was wearing my vans. And I just looked back and shrugged my shoulders. They KNEW I was there first, they stopped the ongoing verbal harassment they gave whites and just ignored me the rest of the year. Wearing someone's colors is a dangerous thing, but they KNEW they got that stuff from the white kids. Hilarious.
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